stubborn thief

Chapter 238 A Safe Journey

To put it bluntly, Taiji was not wearing armor, but sat on the pier in a satin robe, and he had no fear of the army formation in his heart.

He is over 40 years old. Among the eight sons of the Huoluochi family, Xiao Lazun is the youngest. The first few sons are all very old and have dealt with the Ming Dynasty.

When Yan Yan was still a teenager, he followed his father to support the worship in Ningxia, and saw the big battles of the Ming army.

"Am I too old? You young people talk like that now?"

Bai Yan smiled wryly: "Bai Buddha also said the same."

Liu Chengzong didn't understand, so he called Chen Shifo over: "Translation."

He originally wanted to show off his Mongolian language, but considering his poor vocabulary, he could only say something like 'put down the knife' and 'the surrender will not be killed', so he finally gave up.

He asked Master Chen, "Who is White Buddha?"

Chen Shifo didn't even need to ask for words, he said directly: "The White Buddha is Xiao Lazun, the reincarnation of the White Buddha, the master of all Qinghai and Mongolia."

Liu Chengzong was stunned for a moment, and probably figured out why in his heart, Lazun's elder brother was old enough to be Lazun's father.

Cooperating with Huoluochi to give birth to this son is a political need.

Like the fourth generation monk of Mongolian descent, Huoluochi must have given birth to Xiaola Zun, because a living Buddha said that my reincarnation will definitely be born in your family, so Huoluochi gave birth to a baby in his later years.

"Ask him, Lazun also wants me to pay tribute to him? If so, then it goes without saying. We will see who pays tribute to whom according to their own abilities."

Chen Shifo relayed Liu Chengzong's words to Bai Yan, and there was no big fluctuation on Bai Yan's face, he still smiled and said: "I am not here to declare war, you must fight when you come to Qinghai, I just come to prevent you from fighting with us, I will first Talk about the conditions, you think about it for a few days, and I will live here."

Liu Chengzong didn't speak, just nodded.

Then he waved to his entourage, and the entourage brought a book made of chamaejasme papyrus and placed it on the pier.

He said: "This is a gift from Lazun to you. Let it be seen. If you are willing to use it, Lazun will not blame the Seven Divisions of Riyue Mountain. He will also give you Haibei. A thousand horses."

Liu Chengzong laughed out loud when he heard the words, this little Razun, how can I put it... It's like a mirror in Qinghai, how can it be so similar?

This guy is almost carved out of his mold.

"Lhazun is so generous. He gave me such a place that is not under his control." Liu Chengzong laughed and said, "Why don't you tell Lazun to give me a thousand horses every year, and I will allow him to hide in Wusi. Horse herding."

It is very uncomfortable to say that I want to fight.

He felt that he shouldn't have come, and he should let Xiao Lazun come and talk to this person by himself.

To put it bluntly, he used to think that his youngest brother was the person who was the least willing to suffer in the world, but who knew that there was a person in front of him who was even more unwilling to suffer than Razun.

"I hope you know that Razun's conditions are very suitable. You come from Handi, and horses are very precious to you, but not here."

Bai Yan finally frowned, raised his hand uncontrollably, pointed to Liu Chengzong and said, "Apart from Haibei, where do you want to farm in Qinghai? If you are not Han, we have started a war since we occupied Riyue Mountain."

"A thousand horses, Riyue Mountain can give you four hundred horses a year, and there are so many horses in Haibei, these things are all given to you for free!"

Seeing him angry, Liu Chengzong felt comfortable.

He laughed and said, "Why are you in such a hurry, Uzang is such a good place, you couldn't raise hundreds of thousands of horses in the past year? I only want a thousand horses."

What they call Haibei is the north of Qinghai Lake.

After that, he stopped smiling and said, "Of course I'm going to Haibei. If Lazun can get tens of thousands of captives from Haibei to withdraw, I'll give him a thousand horses every year. Can he? He can't, then I Why give him a horse?"

He patted the book that Bai Yan brought, waved his hand and said, "You can live here, or you can go back and talk to Xiao Lazun. I'll take a look at this thing, and we'll talk about it in a few days."

From the bottom of Liu Chengzong's heart, he wished that Little Razun would send troops here to attack him, because he had no way to attack Little Razun.

His soldiers are still getting used to the height of the Hehuang Valley, which is more than 1000 meters higher than that in northern Shaanxi, and the oxygen is reduced, which makes their physical exertion greater.

This is not a big problem, the Hehuang Valley is the lowest place here.

But if you go further west and walk to the area around the lake, it will be higher.

And the Baishiya on the south bank of the Yellow River where Xiao Lazun is located, although it is among the mountains in the southeast, its height is no less than that of the area around the lake in Qinghai.

Even the soldiers from Xining will experience a decline in physical strength for a day or two when they go there, let alone those soldiers from northern Shaanxi.

That's why they need to train in Juerwan before advancing to the Qinghai Lake area.

Seeing that it is easy to explain a thousand horses clearly, but still unable to convince Liu Chengzong, he simply stopped talking and focused on the set of laws, so he nodded and said: "Then I will wait here."

After that, he took a deep look at Chen Shifo: "Take a good look, it will be good for you."

Liu Chengzong noticed Bai Yan's gesture, and ordered the guards to take them down, vacate a nest, provide food, and strictly guard them. Then he asked: "What is this, a scripture?"

Chen Shifo opened it, looked at it, and said, "Commander, this should be the law enacted by that Tsangpa Khan of U-Tsang."

"The law?"

For the first time, Liu Chengzong was puzzled by Xiao Lazun's intentions.

In fact, he has a good impression of the little Lazun. He asks for a thousand horses every year, which is not harsh. Even from the perspective of Lazun, he is at a disadvantage.

Because this is nothing more than treating Liu Chengzong as a tax collector similar to the Yuan Dynasty. He collected enough horses for a thousand horses and the rest belonged to him.

But he thought it was going to be a set of books or something, sending a set of laws?
It's funny, he came from Daming, and he has the most complete and advanced law in the world at this time, so what's the use of giving him this?

It's better to send them two young mothers-in-law and aunts.

But he still planned to take a look to improve his understanding of U-Tsang, so he said, "It's a bit difficult for you to translate this alone. I'll find a few more people to help with the translation, so it can be done faster."

In fact, it is not a matter of speed. This kind of thing cannot be explained by one person, otherwise it is easy to deviate from its own meaning.

He asked people to go to Xining City to find a few more people, here to translate books with Chen Shifo, and he continued to train soldiers, but never expected, his brother sent someone to report that Zuo Huachun, who had left with Cao Huachun earlier, Light came back again.

Seeing Zuo Guangxian goodbye, Liu Chengzong felt very strange: "Why are you back?"

Unexpectedly, Zuo Guangxian bowed down immediately: "Marshal, return my soldiers to me!"

"what?"

Liu Chengzong's face was confused, what the hell did Zuo Guang say first?
He likes people to bow down when they accept their heads. In the previous paragraph, Li Bei and Ma Ke each worshiped a guy for him, and they were very beautiful in their hearts.

But it was because he wanted others to bow down, and he had to put in a lot of mental work to achieve the result of making others bow down.

Zuo Guangxian didn't do anything, he felt very uneasy when he was worshiped, and said quickly: "Get up first, what's the matter? I'll return the soldiers to you."

Zuo Guang was really helpless at first. When he came, he had more than 500 soldiers in his hand.

When I left, there were still more than 500 soldiers.

Liu Chengzong specially allocated 55 stones of grain and [-] donkey carts to him as a reward for breaking the road during this period.

There were three other cars inside that belonged to Cao Huachun. Eunuch Cao helped him a lot, and gave him some special products of Lion Camp, calligraphy and painting utensils and so on.

Anyway, on the day of leaving, Liu Chengzong fulfilled his wish, Cao Huachun escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, Zuo Guang first escaped from the struggle, everyone is running towards a bright future, and they are all in a good mood.

But leaving Xining was not the case for Zuo Guangxian. From the first day he left Xining, his soldiers began to get sick.

Today there is a captain missing, and tomorrow a captain is missing. I went to Lanzhou to count the soldiers, and there were 320 soldiers left, and [-] carts of rations left.

Cao Huachun was so angry that he took Jing Jun instead of leaving with them. There were always soldiers who wanted to go to the vehicle guarded by Jing Jun to find something.

Later, Cao Huachun found a general from Lanzhou to escort him along the way. Zuo Guang went on the road first, and the soldiers ran even harder on the road, and they couldn't stop them at all.

When we walked to Yanshouyi in Anding County, there were more than 100 people left, and five carts of soldiers and food could not go back to Ningzhou.

There is really no way, he can only go back to Xining to find Liu Chengzong's important person.

Zuo Guang didn't get up first, he firmly believed that Liu Chengzong sent people to his team to instigate rebellion.

Liu Chengzong is very wronged.

He smiled wryly, "I didn't keep any of you, and I didn't trip you up. I don't know where they are."

Zuo Guang didn't believe it at first.

Or don't want to believe it.

His soldiers followed him and shared weal and woe through so many difficult days, so they didn't run away.

On the road with dozens of carts of food and grass, all the soldiers left more than a dozen catties of fried noodles. They obviously had food, but they collapsed and fled in all directions?

He cannot accept it.

The last straw in his heart drove him back to Xining, just to let Liu Chengzong admit to his face that he had played tricks secretly to deceive the soldiers away.

His soldiers are uneducated and easy to deceive.

Zuo Guang couldn't afford to worship first, and bowed his head to the ground, hiding his face deeply.

Liu Chengzong was a little bit caught off guard, the guerrilla general's shoulders were shaking, if he was not hiding his face and snickering, he was collapsing.

Liu Chengzong sighed, he could figure out what Zuo Guangxian's troops went through.

Persistence, whether it is for soldiers or hungry people, persistence and patience are the easiest things in the world.

With rations that are still hungry after eating, and with good hopes for the future, there is no need to do anything, just pass by.

No rebellion, no inner struggle, no fear, no need to change the state of your life, just go on as usual.

Change is much harder than persistence. A person who can be a good soldier may not be a good robber. People are always afraid of entering unknown areas.

So as long as no one takes the lead, most people can stick to half-dead.

In such a comparison, He Renlong is still smart and released Cao Yao early.

Liu Chengzong could even imagine that even if He Renlong didn't let go of his troops, he wouldn't be serving as a soldier in Yulin right now, and he might be following Cao Yao to become a bandit.

Liu Chengzong sighed and waited for a long time without saying anything, pretending that he didn't see Zuo Guangxian's shoulders shrugging.

Until he calmed down and regained his dignity, he quietly wiped his face.

He stepped forward and pulled Zuo Guang up, and met Zuo Guang's grateful eyes and said, "Go out and search in my camp. I don't care if it's your soldier or not. If you find anyone who is willing to go with you, my Lion Army I have always been free to come and go, and let you take people away."

Walking out of the tent of the Chinese army, Liu Chengzong's guards were chatting with Zuo Guangxian's servant, which made Zuo Guangxian even more ashamed.

Because his servant was stepping on the horse stake and chattering: "What are you afraid of? If there is food to eat, my baby is still in Yulin, otherwise... General!"

The guards and servants stood at attention immediately, and when Zuo Guang walked past him first, the servants were terrified.

It wasn't until Liu Chengzong took Zuo Guang past them first that the guard looked at the captain of the guard and heaved a sigh of relief, pursed his lips and slapped himself lightly on the mouth with a smile, and then followed.

Liu Chengzong heard the conversation between the two clearly, and said to Zuo Guang first: "You and I travel thousands of miles together, I will not make it difficult for you."

"If you can find someone, I'll let you take the 500 people together, and I'll give you [-] people a month's rations. If you can't find them, it won't be easy for you to do business when you go back."

"You were born in martial arts, and this is the occasion when I am employing people. Let your family member ride back on a fast horse with a warrant, and bring you and your family members here."

Zuo Guang didn't speak first.

"You are boring, what are you afraid of?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "I have no shortage of horses, let them change on the road, if it is fast, I can come back before the year, if it is slow, I will spend a new year in Han Wangfu, there are my soldiers, no one can move them."

Zuo Guang first frowned and thought for a long time, then said: "You have hundreds of wounded soldiers over there, can you protect them?"

"No one can defeat hundreds of wounded soldiers."

Hearing his rebuttal, Liu Chengzong squinted his eyes in joy, and said very easily and earnestly: "But they can keep Han Fan from being trapped."

Zuo Guang said first: "Aren't you trapped by them?"

"Isn't that enough? Let me ask you one thing. If I, Liu Shizi, don't speak up, who would dare to lead troops into Pingliang? Entering Pingliang, the Han Fan immediately fell."

Liu Chengzong turned his head and said to Zuo Guangxian: "Except for Pingliang, they have to go around the remaining roads to cross Liupan Mountain, so as long as you reach Pingliang, your family will be safe, and even if there are pursuers, they will not be able to catch up." .”

Zuo Guang didn't know.

The matter of defecting to Liu Chengzong, Zuo Guang had already flashed through his head when Liu Chengzong was still a thief.

After all, if a thief has food, he has no food.

But this matter instinctively made him resist, so he didn't have to think about it.

But now that I think about it carefully, I can't help thinking about this kind of conflict.

Now it is said that it is a thief, but it seems that it is not a thief. Even if Liu Chengzong is a thief, the fourth-rank Qinghai Xuanwei Envoy's Tong Zhi Riqiang was also given by the court.

Besides, his soldiers could still get food.

"Don't be so insincere, just one sentence, either go pick people, and leave if you can't pick them; or you stay and work for me, and the servants will pick up the family members, and change places to fight the northern captives."

"Family, can you arrive safely as the commander said?" Zuo Guang first made up his mind, clasped his fists and said, "If I can reach Xining, I will serve by the commander's side from now on."

"What I want is your words. Zhou Zhizhou's family is in Baoding Mansion, and it will be difficult to take over. Your family is in Yulin, what are you afraid of?"

Liu Chengzong made a secret calculation in his heart, went south from Yulin, went to Yuhebao, and He Yong took over, and entered Yan'an Mansion with Ren Quan'er from Saimen Qianhu, Yan'an Guard General Yang Yanchang, and farming king Gao Yingxiang, and went to Qingyang Mansion to join him. Jiang Yingchang of Shuizhi County can help, and after Ningzhou is Pingliang.

Then mix in Han Xiaowang's caravan and just walk all the way.

Conveniently, Li Bei's family members can also be taken over, completely reassuring the heart of the military general with the highest rank in the Lion Army.

Liu Chengzong didn't tell him his plan, but said: "It's not too late, I'll find someone to write a letter, and let your servant go on the road in two days."

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)